MS. Laud Misc. 147
Summary Catalogue no.: 1322
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 208 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 350 × 248 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 168 mm.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 56, pl. V)
Floriate initials in red penwork on yellow ground.
Binding
Laudian binding, rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris.
Probably identifiable as b 5 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted (May 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 287 [physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 56 [localization]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-05-07: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer, Pächt and Alexander and Quarto catalogues.